The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-14
TIE FIELD OF LITERATURE
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| eases known mechanical massage. The au-
thor claims good deal for it. To quote he
says Mechanical massage causes physiolog-
ical oxidation at WILL and to almost any desired
extent The increased oxygen taken from
respired air is employed throughout the system
TO neutralize unused, obstructive, unstable and
Injurious materials. from whatever source. The
same agent, more than any other incites muscu-
lar nutrition and restores the natural functions
or these important organs. 1t relieves the
nervous system of undue irritability and waste;
1t causes sleep aud harmonizes the pervous rea-
ton of the vital organism" Perhaps the best
result of the system is that it tends to prove the
great value of muscular exercise and the supe-
riority of nature to all artificial remedies. Pub
lished by John B. Alden. New York. Cloth, 70
cents.
Samantha at Saratoga, by Josiah Aliens wife,
is the latest volume of a series which was begun
when Samantha" told of her trip to the GEN.
tennial Miss Holly's books do not meet with
the commentator of the critics; they are not
! recognized as literature. but nevertheless they
enjoy wonderful popularity. They are liked
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expressed in the homeliest terms. When the
author drops her usual style and becomes poetic
and eloquent, as in her beautiful eulogy of Gen
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not apply her talents to the production of
higher order of fiction; but perhaps in such
the moral lessons she inculcates skillfully by
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'Joe's Luck Boys Adventures in Cali
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artistic Horse-Shoeing' A practical and
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shoeine. with special directions for shaping
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for the correction of faulty action in trot-
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'Greater America Hits anc Hints; oy for
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entering on Life" is a series of essays by
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The fourth number of the Century Companys
BATTLES and Leaders of the Civil War; gives.
in connection with the previous issues. fair
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appeared in the Century Magazine. and the en-
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'sThe Autobiography of SANDER" is new
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''Thraldom" novel by Julian Sturges author
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D. Appleton & Co., New York, publish I'm
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Harper & Brothers publish. as No. 597 of the
Franklin-square Library, Essays and Leaves
from Note book" by George Eliot It is a col
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to the Westminster Review before she became
famous. The collection was made and partly
revised by the author herself.
John B. Alden, New York. has issued cheap
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